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Such an attack is not a grapple attack. It is using a weapon while under the "grappled" condition.

Because "Grappling means wrestling and struggling hand-to-hand." (3.0 PHB p. 137) Yes. You can make a melee attack (unarmed strike). Which satisfies the definition of threatening. So the AOO is provoked. Do you agree that the line "If you’re unarmed, you don’t normally threaten any squares...

That doesn't change your state of threatening one way or the other. "Being armed" has nothing to do with the definition of threatening. Not so. The rule under Unarmed Attacks is that the opponent must be "armed" for an AOO to be provoked. Threatening is not mentioned there. Again, that is a...

I agree that an AOO is only provoked if an action is taken in a threatened area. The note establishes that you can make an AOO via grappling. Therefore, you must threaten with a grapple (unarmed).

It looks like the D&D rules pricing is fundamentally set up higher than you're trying to go. A permanent item of prestidigitation (do any of the effects you list) is ballparked at 1,000 gp. Even a one-shot potion of prestidigitation would be 25 gp. A simple continual flame spell torch is 90 gp...

Which is contradicted by the core rules Table 8-4 note saying specifically that you can make an AOO when unarmed, by such means as disarm, grapple, and trip (3.0 PHB p. 128).

In core D&D it's 25,001+. Notice that NimrodvanHall said "planar metropolis" which is presumably some extradimensional alien thing, not part of the D&D core rules. My historical information is that in medieval times (13th century, per Gies, "Life in a Medieval City"), the largest European city...

Yes.

But in 3E (following molonel), by RAW, you did threaten with an unarmed strike. It wasn't until 3.5 that the "if you’re unarmed, you don’t normally threaten" got into the core rules (which btw creates the contradiction with Table 8-4's note about using unarmed attack forms for AOOs). The...

Hey thanks for that last post, good idea. (I summarized results in order near the end of each poll thread, but it's handy to have them all in one place!)

No. The ring makes her "immune to... any attempt to magically discern her alignment".

Answer is "No". From the SRD "CombatI: Standard Actions":

Here's the collected links to the "What spells should any Wizard prepare?" polls. These are mostly from last year (2004), I meant to collect the links while ago, and never got around to it. 1 -- http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=103904 2 --...

What you're certainly running into (mentioned above) is that summoning gets doubly good as levels go up because (1) monsters get tougher, and (2) the duration they last goes up. In particular, what's happened for you is you just now hit the level where your duration is equal to the length of...

Same thing. The difficult choice between "pay for 50" or "risk it with just 30" is taken away. Admittedly it is better (see also SKR) than allowing 1-unit gradients.

Example: Wizard has a depleted wand of charm person, and currently 50 gp. His standard tactics involve an item to cast charm person. RAW: Wizard says, "Hmmm, I've got a tough choice to make. I could spend my cash now and make 4 scrolls of charm person at a higher price (12.5 gp/charge). Or I...

Greyhawk is theoretically "the D&D world", it's what the core rules are built on. For example, all the gods and wizard-spell names in the core rules are from Greyhawk. On the one hand, WOTC doesn't publish any specific "Greyhawk" resources anymore. But on the other hand, the official RPGA...

It actually needs to be higher, or else there'd be no reason to ever sink x50 value into creating a new one... for example, the price of a scroll would be reasonable (same benefit/cost)...

From the DMG, D&D standard is that 5% of the population are warriors on standby militia capacity. About 1/3 that many are in active guard.

Agreed. You will see all the same names next to the demon types in the AD&D 1st Ed. MM (generic types for I-III, example individual names for IV-VI.)